Deaths in October 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1998.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

October 1998

1

• Pauline Julien, 70, Quebec singer, songwriter, actress and feminist activist, suicide.
• Sjur Lindebrække, 89, Norwegian banker and politician.
• Vladimir Ossipoff, 90, Russian-American architect.
• Gabriel Sandu, 45, Romanian football player.

2

• Gene Autry, 91, American Hall of Fame singer ("Back in the Saddle Again", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") and actor (The Gene Autry Show), lymphoma.
• Jerzy Bińczycki, 61, Polish stage and film actor, heart attack.
• DONDI, 37, American graffiti artist, AIDS.
• William J. Eccles, 81, Canadian historian and academic.
• Olin J. Eggen, 79, American astronomer.
• Olivier Gendebien, 74, Belgian racing driver.
• Enrico Pagani, 69, Italian basketball player.
• Korla Pandit, 77, American composer, pianist, and organist, heart attack.
• Raymond Raikes, 88, British theatre producer, director and broadcaster.
• D. French Slaughter, Jr., 73, American politician.
• Adrian Spies, 78, American screenwriter.
• Roger Vivier, 90, French women's shoe designer.
• Richard Way, 84, British civil servant and academic administrator.
• Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, 36, Mongolian politician and revolutionary, assassinated.

3

• Hugo Batalla, 72, Uruguayan politician, vice president (1995-1998), lung cancer.
• Arthur Clues, 74, Australian rugby player.
• George Davis, 84, American art director (The Robe, The Diary of Anne Frank, Funny Face), Oscar winner (1954, 1960).
• David C. Evans, 74, American computer scientist.
• Bernard Fox, 81, American figure skater.
• Colin Greenwood, 62, South African rugby player.
• Roddy McDowall, 70, British-American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cleopatra, Fright Night), lung cancer.
• G. S. Venkataraman, 68, Indian botanist.
• Anne-Marie Walters, 75, Swiss-British Special Operations Executive during World War II.
• George Yates, 90, Australian businessman and politician.

4

• S. Arasaratnam, 68, Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
• Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 62, Swiss politician.
• Lee Grissom, 90, American baseball player.
• Enea Pavani, 77, Italian curler.
• Tony Shelly, 61, New Zealand racing driver.

5

• Megs Jenkins, 81, English actress.
• Krzysztof Jung, 47, Polish painter, graphic artist and performer, asthma.
• Pierre Martory, 77, French poet.
• Federico Zeri, 77, Italian art historian.
• Arne Øien, 69, Norwegian economist and politician.

6

• Mark Belanger, 54, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• Ambrose Burke, 102, English professor and Catholic priest.
• Rolan Bykov, 68, Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Bob Gude, 80, American football player.
• Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 54, French double bass player, cancer.
• James Larkin, 66, Irish Gaelic football player and politician.
• Samuel Messick, 67, American psychologist.
• Stéphane Morin, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, heart problems.
• Joseph J. Sandler, 71, British psychoanalyst.
• Chuck Walton, 57, American gridiron football player.
• Jerome Weidman, 85, American playwright and novelist.

7

• Evelyn Daniel Anderson, 72, American educator and disability rights advocate.
• Richard Cyert, 77, American economist and statistician, cancer.
• Cees de Vreugd, 46, Dutch strongman, heart attack.
• W. B. Gallie, 86, Scottish social theorist and philosopher.
• Arnold Jacobs, 83, American tubist.
• Renato Malavasi, 94, Italian film actor.
• Joseph P. Merlino, 76, American Party politician.
• Lee Nak-hoon, 62, South Korean actor, heart disease and diabetes.
• Ru Zhijuan, 72, Chinese writer.

8

• Curtis Cassell, 85, German-British rabbi.
• Zhang Chongren, 91, Chinese artist and sculptor.
• Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala, 89, Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer.
• Jashim, 48, Bangladeshi film actor, producer and freedom fighter, brain haemorrhage.
• West Nkosi, 58, South African music producer, saxophonist and songwriter, car crash.
• Gigi Reder, 70, Italian character actor.
• Glenn Spearman, 51, American jazz tenor saxophonist, cancer.
• Anatol Vieru, 72, Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.

9

• Robert Allen, 92, American actor, cancer.
• Anthony Alonzo, 50, Filipino actor, singer, and councilor of Quezon City, skin cancer.
• Beth Bonner, 46, American long-distance runner, traffic accident.
• George Rankine Irwin, 91, American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials.
• Ian Johnson, 80, Australian cricketer.
• John Geddes MacGregor, 88, British-American author, scholar, and priest.
• Nagbhushan Patnaik, 63, Indian communist revolutionary and politician.
• Gustavo Petricioli, 70, Mexican economist, heart attack.
• Xiao Yang, 69, Chinese politician.

10

• Clark Clifford, 91, American lawyer and politician.
• Jackie Forster, 71, English news reporter, actress and lesbian rights activist.
• Marvin Gay Sr., 84, American minister and father of Marvin Gaye, pneumonia.
• Pierce Lyden, 90, American actor.
• William Markowitz, 91, American astronomer,.
• Tony Marvin, 86, American radio and television announcer.
• Rachel Cosgrove Payes, 75, American novelist and author.
• Konstantin Petrzhak, 91, Russian nuclear physicist.
• Tommy Quaid, 41, Irish hurler, injuries sustained from a fall.
• Berta Rahm, 88, Swiss architect, writer and feminist activist.
• El Tappe, 71, American baseball player and coach, cancer.

11

• Richard Denning, 84, American actor, heart attack.
• Fred Harris, 86, English footballer.
• Lars Theodor Jonsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
• Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, 81, British peer and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer.
• Spottswood William Robinson III, 82, American civil rights attorney and US Circuit Judge.
• Gaius Shaver, 88, American football player and Olympian.

12

• Jürgen Aschoff, 85, German physician, biologist and behavioral physiologist.
• Bernhard Minetti, 93, German actor.
• Julio Saraceni, 86, Argentine film director.
• Ineko Sata, 94, Japanese author and communist.
• Matthew Shepard, 21, American murder victim, beaten to death.
• Wilson Allen Wallis, 85, American economist and statistician.

13

• Thomas Byberg, 82, Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist.
• Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, 54, Soviet and Russian politician and industrialist, assassinated, homicide.
• P. T. Narasimhachar, 93, Indian Kannada playwright and poet.
• Bojan Pečar, 38, Serbian/Yugoslav musician, heart attack.
• Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui, 27, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
• Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, 66, Canadian pilot and Chief of the Defence Staff.

14

• Cleveland Amory, 81, American author, reporter and animal rights activist, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Leopoldina Bălănuță, 63, Romanian actress.
• Dasarath Deb, 82, Indian communist politician.
• Betty Gillies, 90, American aviation pioneer.
• Giorgio Oberweger, 84, Italian discus thrower and Olympic medalist.
• Frankie Yankovic, 93, American polka musician, heart failure.

15

• Rolf Agop, 90, German conductor and academic.
• Colette Darfeuil, 92, French actress.
• Mãe Cleusa Millet, 75, Brazilian physician and spiritual leader.
• Ike Owens, 79, Welsh rugby player.
• Iain Crichton Smith, 70, Scottish poet and novelist.

16

• Carlos Aldabe, 79, Argentine football player and coach.
• Frank Carswell, 78, American baseball player and manager.
• Jon Postel, 55, American computer scientist, complications from heart surgery.
• Joseph Stamler, 86, American lawyer and judge.
• M. Vasalis, 89, Dutch poet and psychiatrist.

17

• Antonio Agri, 66, Argentine musician, cancer.
• Germán List Arzubide, 100, Mexican poet and revolutionary.
• Brian Dickson, 82, Canadian military officer and judge.
• Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, 63, Pakistani religious leader, assassinated, homicide.
• Joan Hickson, 92, English actress (Miss Marple).
• Carmen Molina, 78, Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
• Hakim Said, 78, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, murdered.
• Tron, 26, German hacker and phreaker, suicide.
• Karel Vohralík, 53, Czech ice hockey player.

18

• Frédéric Fitting, 96, Swiss fencer and Olympian.
• Peter A. Griffin, 61, American mathematician, author, and blackjack expert.
• Alfred Praks, 96, Estonian wrestler and Olympian.
• Dick Sheppard, 53, English footballer.
• George Shaw Wheeler, 90, American advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and defector.

19

• Arnold M. Auerbach, 86, American comedy writer.
• Frank J. Brasco, 66, American politician.
• Tommy Burks, 58, American farmer and politician, murdered.
• Chaduranga, 82, Indian Kannada writer.
• Edward Flannery, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Fritz Honka, 63, German serial killer.
• Charlton Ogburn, 87, American journalist and author, suicide.
• Compton I. White, Jr., 77, American politician.

20

• John Mowbray Didcott, 67, South African lawyer and judge, cancer.
• Frank Gillard, 89, British BBC reporter and radio pioneer.
• Gerhard Jahn, 71, German politician, cancer.
• Spike Nelson, 92, American football player and coach.
• René Pleimelding, 73, French football player and manager.

21

• Josef Bremm, 84, Nazi Germany Wehrmacht officer.
• Scott Brower, 34, American ice hockey player, traffic accident.
• Alexander Cairncross, 87, British economist;.
• John Hazen, 71, American basketball player.
• Nicholas Kemmer, 86, Russian-British nuclear physicist.
• Hans Alfred Nieper, 70, German alternative medicine practitioner.
• Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury, 96, British businessman.
• Tatiana Tolmacheva, 91, Soviet figure skater and figure skating coach.

22

• Eric Ambler, 89, English thriller author.
• Nathalia Crane, 85, American poet and novelist.
• Burton M. Cross, 95, American businessman, politician and governor.
• Ajit Khan, 76, Indian actor.
• Molly O'Day, 87, American film actress.
• Violet Owen, 96, British tennis and hockey player.
• Ángel Picazo, 81, Spanish film actor, cancer.
• Francis W. Sargent, 83, American politician and governor.

23

• Noel Carroll, 56, Irish middle distance runner and Olympian, heart attack.
• Christopher Gable, 58, English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer.
• Winnie Ruth Judd, 93, American convicted murderer.
• Zangeres Zonder Naam, 79, Dutch levenslied singer, heart attack.
• Barnett Slepian, 52, American physician, homicide.
• Silviu Stănculescu, 66, Romanian actor, leukemia.

24

• Rafael Alonso, 78, Spanish actor.
• Dennis Ayling, 81, British cinematographer.
• Charles Barnes, 96, Australian politician.
• Mary Calderone, 94, American physician and sexual education advocate.
• Pino Dordoni, 72, Italian race walker and Olympic champion.
• Ardalion Ignatyev, 67, Soviet track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

25

• Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, 93, British mycologist and scientific historian.
• Robin Brook, 90, British banker and Olympic fencer.
• Geoff Crain, 67, Canadian football player.
• Dick Higgins, 60, American artist, composer, poet, and publisher, heart attack.
• John Hyland, 86, United States Navy admiral.
• Gavriil Malish, 91, Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist and graphic artist.
• Susan Strange, 75, British scholar and political scientist.
• Warren Wiebe, 45, American vocalist and session musician, suicide.

26

• Nicholas Budgen, 60, British politician, liver cancer.
• Rick Dior, 51, American sound engineer (Apollo 13, Dirty Dancing, Ransom), Oscar winner (1996), heart attack.
• Kenkichi Iwasawa, 81, Japanese mathematician.
• Margaret Keay, 87, British phytopathologist.
• José Cardoso Pires, 73, Portuguese author.
• Hugh David Stevenson, 80, Royal Australian Navy officer.
• Terry Thomas, 45, American basketball player.
• Selvarajan Yesudian, 82, Swiss yogi and author.

27

• Alfred Gray, 59, American mathematician, heart attack.
• Rosamund John, 85, English film and stage actress.
• Reidar Kvammen, 84, Norwegian footballer.
• Daniel Pedoe, 87, English mathematician and geometer.
• Luis Prendes, 85, Spanish actor, cancer.
• Gene Taylor, 70, American politician.
• Klári Tolnay, 84, Hungarian actress.
• Winnie van Weerdenburg, 52, Dutch swimmer and Olympic medalist.

28

• Ghulam Ahmed, 76, Indian cricket player.
• Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, 86, British politician, minister and life peer.
• Sherman Block, 74, American politician and sheriff.
• James L. Day, 73, United States Marine Corps major general.
• Tommy Flowers, 92, English engineer and electronic computing pioneer.
• James Goldman, 71, American screenwriter (The Lion in Winter, Nicholas and Alexandria) and playwright (Follies), Oscar winner (1969), heart attack.
• Ted Hughes, 68, English poet and children's writer, heart attack.
• Margaret Marley Modlin, 71, American painter, sculptor and photographer.
• Wang Shuming, 92, Chinese airforce colonel general.

29

• Anthony J. Celebrezze, 88, American politician.
• Alvin M. Johnston, 84, American jet-age test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gilda Lousek, 60, Argentine actress.
• Paul Misraki, 90, French composer of music and film scores.
• Harry Weese, 83, American architect, stroke.

30

• Vishram Bedekar, 92, Indian writer and movie director.
• Guido De Santi, 75, Italian racing cyclist.
• Apo Lazaridès, 73, French cyclist.
• Bulldog Turner, 79, American football player and coach.
• Lam Van Phat, Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer.
• Elmer Vasko, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota North Stars).
• Heinz Westphal, 74, German politician.

31

• Kenneth Darling, 89, British Army general.
• María de la Purísima de la Cruz, 72, Spanish Roman Catholic nun.
• Bernard J. Dwyer, 77, American Democratic Party politician, heart attack.
• Vassar Miller, 74, Writer and poet.
• Noah Mullins, 80, American gridiron football player.
• Lou Rymkus, 78, American football player and coach, stroke.
• Bob Thurman, 81, American baseball player.

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